Representatives of the Pacific Wave international network peering
facility and the Trans-Eurasia Information Network*Corporation Center
(TEIN*CC) today announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding
highlighting the two organizations’ desire to work together to promote
advanced networking, collaboration, and advocacy among and on behalf of
the Pacific Rim research and education communities.

With this Memorandum of Understanding in effect, researchers across the
Pacific Rim will be even better able to collaborate globally on
world-class research projects in areas such as radio astronomy,
distributed (grid) computing, telemedicine, climatology, digital cinema,
high-energy physics, and more. Global educational collaboration will
also be further enabled, as high-performance networks have enhanced
distributed classrooms and student exchange programs through
high-quality videoconferencing and other technologies.

“Pacific Wave is an integral part of the worldwide fabric of research
and education networks,” said Louis Fox, President and CEO of CENIC, the
nonprofit corporation which, with the Pacific Northwest Gigapop, runs
Pacific Wave with the support of the University of Washington and the
University of Southern California. “Formalizing the relationship with
TEIN*CC is yet another building block in ensuring robust,
high-performance connectivity of the sort that is essential in today’s
landscape of borderless global collaboration.”

“This relationship with TEIN*CC further emphasizes the vital role
Pacific Wave plays among advanced research and education networks,” adds
Pacific Northwest Gigapop CEO Ron Johnson. “Each such agreement between
the world’s advanced networks and exchanges strengthens the web of
interconnected high-performance optical networks, enabling them to
function as the foundation beneath so much 21st century
research and education.”

With a total of five exchange points located in Seattle, Sunnyvale, and
Los Angeles and connected by a 100G fiber backbone, the Pacific Wave
international peering facility provides research and education networks
throughout the Pacific Rim and beyond the opportunity to peer with one
another, removing international borders as boundaries to network-enabled
global collaboration and innovation. Current participants represent
networks and agencies from Australia, Canada, China, Japan, Korea,
Mexico, New Zealand, Qatar, Singapore, South America, Taiwan, and the
United States. Many multi-national networks such as GLORIAD, NORDUnet
(Nordic countries), and redCLARA (Central and South America) also
participate, bringing the total of nations whose research and education
communities can collaborate on network-enabled projects via Pacific Wave
to more than 40.

Launched at the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) 3 Summit in Seoul in 2001,
the TEIN network created by the Trans-Eurasia Information Network
initiative began with a single link between France and South Korea and
evolved to provide a dedicated high-capacity Internet network between
research and education communities in the Asia Pacific region. Through
westbound links to GN3 (formerly GÉANT), its pan-European counterpart,
TEIN offers direct high-speed intercontinental connectivity, and with
support from the European Commission, the TEIN partner countries now
include Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India,
Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, the
Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam. Now in its
third generation as TEIN3, the network’s upgrade to TEIN4 will receive
funding support from the European Commission and from the participating
National Research and Education Networks (NRENs).

Pacific Wave is a joint project between the Corporation for Education
Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) and the Pacific Northwest
Gigapop (PNWGP), and is operated in collaboration with the University of
Southern California and the University of Washington. The distributed
design of Pacific Wave allows participants to engage in bilateral
peerings regardless of which node they are physically connected to. This
design offers significant flexibility and opportunities for networks
utilizing any of a dozen trans-Pacific cables for their circuits as well
as for building redundancy and robustness into peering relationships
that would otherwise be cost prohibitive and complex to engineer.

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